IRMA URTEAGA - ARGENTINA
BORN 7 MARCH
Irma Urteaga was born in San Nicholas, Buenos Aires. She began her studies in Paraná (Entre Ríos) and continued in Buenos Aires with Lucrecia María Madariaga Gilardi, Josefa Hernandorena and Jorge Fanelli for piano and Beatriz Gilardo Henandorena y Gilardi for harmony. She graduated in piano in 1959, and continued studying at the same school, graduating in composition in 1971. Her teachers for composition were Roberto Caamaño and Valdo Sciammarella, for instrumentation was Roberto García Morillo, and for history and aesthetics, Carlos Sufern and Alicia Terzian.
After ending her studies, Urteaga performed as a concert musician and taught harmony at the Conservatorio Nacional de Música Carlos López Buchardo and operatic repertoire, vocal negotiation analysis and opera at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón. She was Columbus Theatre International Master (1974–1977) and director of an Opera Workshop in 1984. She was hired by the Opera Foundation of Ecuador to organize the lyrics for performances in Quito, Guayaquil and Cuenca from 1986-1988.
Urteaga has been the recipient of a number of composition and achievement awards. She has been Deputy Secretary (1973–1980), Second Vice President (1997–2000) and First Vice President (2001–2003) of the Argentina Association of Composers, Registrar of the Argentine Council of Music (CAMU, 1985–1993 and an Active Member of the United Composers of Argentina (CUDA, 1986–2005). She also served as Vice President of the Argentine Forum of Composers (FADEC).
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Tiempos de Memoria by Irma Urteaga
MARGARET SHELTON MEIER - USA
BORN 7 MARCH
Margaret Shelton Meier, music educator, composer. George Eastman scholar, 1954-1958; recipient Atwater Kent composition award, 1980, Atwater Kent musicology award, 1980.
Instructor, Pasadena Christian School, 1958-1968; teaching associate, University of California at Los Angeles, 1975-1980; lecturer, California State University, San Bernardino, 1977-1979; instructor, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, California, since 1980. Director music Trinity United Methodist Church, Pomona, California, 1982-1988
Member American Women Composers, Inc., since 1983 (vice president west coast since 1984), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (award 1990-1997), National Association Composers United States of America, Music Teachers Association California (Pomona branch president since 1984, composition state composers' chairman 1974-1976), International Alliance of Women in Music. F C.
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Claremont Symphony: IV. The Return
Claremont Symphony: IV. The Return
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